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AMBALA
DENTAL CHECK-UP CAMP: The Rotary Club, Ambala Central, has held a dental check-up camp at PKR Jain Girls School in Ambala city. A team of dentists, including Dr Mona Chaudhary, Dr Deepak Arora and Dr B. Aggarwal, explained the need for dental care and examined the students with the help of a mobile dental unit. The Rotary Club Ambala Central president, Mr Sudhir Jain and Secretary, Mr Tejinder Bajaj, said that besides the dental camp, a medical check-up camp, eye-donation camp and a veterinary camp would also be organised soon. GREEN
AMBALA CAMPAIGN: A 10-day ‘Green Ambala’ campaign was inaugurated here on Friday by the Commissioner of Ambala, Mr Chander Singh. The campaign started at Indra Park in Ambala cantonment where a variety programme on the environment as a theme was organised. The campaign is to be carried out with the assistance of NGOs. Mr Chander Singh said that this campaign would help in stopping the erosion of top soil after heavy rainfall. ORGANISED: The Ambala Junior Chamber organised a training programme on the topic “Stars of Tomorrow” for students of class V to class X. Dr Sushil Kansal gave them tips for better presentation on the stage. A variety programme was organised at Aggarwal Dharmshala under Dr Kansal. Mr Lalit Sachdeva said that all participants were given gifts to motivate them. Meanwhile, the Jaycerette wing of the Ambala Junior Chamber celebrated Teej mahotsav. Around 50 Jaycerettes participated in the programme whose main attractions were antakshari, a dance competition and tambola. Harjeet Sodhi won the dance competition.
FATEHABAD
MEDICAL CAMP: The district police and local social organisations organised a free medical camp for drug addicts at Alika village on Thursday. The camp organised under a campaign called ‘‘Paryaas’’ was inaugurated by the district police chief, Mr Shrikant
Jadhav. Six hundred addicts took medicines and counselling to get rid of the menace.
KAITHAL
TRAFFIC BLOCKED: Labourers working in Anaj Mandi, Cheeka, 25 km from here went on a strike for two hours and blocked traffic on the
Kaithal-Cheeka road on Thursday. They were protesting against the administration for not providing any help to the labourers who were injured when some cement sheets of a shed fell on them on Tuesday. The SDM, Mr Rajiv
Mehta, and the SHO, Mr Kaptan Singh, assured them that financial help would be provided to the victims following which the blockade was lifted. PANIPAT
TICKETLESS TRAVELLERS: As many as 85 passengers, travelling without ticket in different trains, were caught during a check at the Panipat Railway Station, on Thursday evening. According to the Railway Magistrate, Mr Krishan Kant, 62 passengers were fined and a recovery of Rs 26, 400 was made. As many as 23 passengers were sent to the Ambala
jail. ROHTAK
LIFE SENTENCE: The District and Sessions Judge, Mr R.S. Madan, has sentenced Kashmira Singh alias Motu (26) of Ajaib village to life on the charge of murder. The judgement was delivered on Tuesday. He was found guilty of murdering Jagdish alias Nanha of the same village in March, 1998. SIRSA
MEMORANDUM: About 200 Congress workers, led by an ex-Irrigation Minister, Mr Jagdish
Nehra, and the state organising secretaries, Mr Veer Bhan Mehta, Mr Mohan Lal Darolia and Mr Hoshiari Lal Sharma, submitted a memorandum on Thursday to the SP against the arrest of Sampooran Singh, a Congress leader, in the Gigorani murder case. They alleged that the arrest was politically motivated and demanded an independent inquiry.
SONEPAT
ARRESTED: The Rai police on Friday claimed to have arrested Atul Kumar alias Soni of Dayalpur ( Delhi), who was, according to the police, wanted in a case of dacoity and had been declared a proclaimed offender. Mr
A.S. Chawla, SP, said the arrest of the accused followed the registration of an FIR by Mr Surinder of Gumar village on May 5 last year. NABBED: The Railway Police has arrested five armed youths , while they were planning to commit a dacoity at a petrol pump at Ganaur town, 16 km from here, on Thursday night. The arrested persons have been identified as Vinod, Pradeep and Om Parkash of Samaspur village and Vinod and Anil of Gandhi Nagar locality of Ganaur. The police also recovered a country-made pistol and three cartridges from their possession.
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